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FALL FESTIVAL at Queens County Farm this weekend! October 26th.
$5. Free for members!
Free admission to farm. Call or see website for details.
Last weekend to explore the CORN MAIZE!
"Queens County Farm Museum's history dates back to 1697; it occupies New York City's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland. The farm encompasses a 47-acre parcel that is the longest continuously farmed site in New York State. The site includes historic farm buildings, a greenhouse complex, livestock, farm vehicles and implements, planting fields, an orchard and herb garden.
Our farm animals and tranquil agrarian environment provide the opportunity to leave the hectic daily pace behind for an enjoyable visit to a farm without leaving the City."
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THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE: REFLECTING THE ENVIRONMENT IN DESIGN, MAPS, AND THEATER
October 26, 6pm
RSVP | $5 Suggested Donation
How do different creative disciplines construct a narrative around ecology and environmentalism? This Long Table discussion will include theater director Karin Coonrod, composer Liz Swados, experts in data visualization from Vizzuality, and faculty from the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping. We invite you to join the discourse surrounding the role of art and design in preserving our planet’s vital resources. The Long Table experiments with participation and public engagement by reappropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum and encouraging informal conversation on serious topics. This event will touch on the connections between science, activism, theater, and design and how people working in these various areas are striving to effect positive social change. This evening is presented in association with La MaMa’s production of The Tempest directed by Karin Coonrod with music by Liz Swados, running October 2 through November 2 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre. For more details please visit lamama.org
Anne Luther (Professor, PIIM, Lab for Quantitative Data)
Cooper Francis (Professor, PIIM, Lab for Quantitative Data)
Karin Coonrod (Director)
Liz Swados (Composer)
NATURAL DYES
"Natural dyes have been used since 2600 BC and on all over the world. It is the original form of color on fiber and has represented many cultures throughout history. Indigo and Madder root have been major crops for the colors blue and red on several continents, and continue to be incredibly strong dye materials. Other natural dye colors can be pulled out of a long list of plants and minerals, many of which may be in our own backyards. It hadn't been until the industrial revolution that the use of natural dyes became dominated by synthetic dyes.
This workshop will go over a holistic way to utilize natural dyes on fiber. It will cover basic washing, mordanting and dyeing techniques demonstrated with several different types of plant materials. The primary focus will be on shibori dyeing techniques using a naturally fermenting indigo vat and how to begin and maintain the vat. Leave the workshop with a canvas tote bag, worksheets and samples.
BLUEREDYELLOW is a natural dye house started in Philadelphia and run by Elissa Meyers and Mira Adornetto. The business sprouted after receiving a Corzo Center for the Creative Economy grant from The University Arts in which the two are alumni. Aside from teaching workshops, Elissa and Mira currently work on custom dye orders, working with businesses as an alternative dye service to synthetic dyes. They utilize direct sources for plant material and often grow and forage for color. They have been mentioned in several publications including The New York Times, FastCompany, Flying Kite Magazine and Philadelphia's Grid Magazine.
Doors open at 6pm; workshop starts at 6:30pm Members: $15; Non-members: $25
Email programs@thehort.org for more information
ART AND NATURE SYMPOSIUM
The Hort’s first annual Art & Nature Symposium focuses on the intersection of art and agriculture, and how both are used as catalysts for creative thought, environmental stewardship, and economic development. Historically, nature has inspired artists to create, but more as a passive thing to behold. In recent years, artists have taken a more interactive approach to their environment and the surrounding landscape—cultivating it, developing it, creating it. The Art & Nature Symposium invites some of our most important artists, curators, and advocates to explore the role art and culture play in cultivating and protecting our environment.
The Horticultural Society of New York
Thursday, November 13, 2014 5:30-7:45pm
The Horticultural Society of New York 148 West 37th Street, Floor 13,
New York, NY 10018
Members: Free Non-Members: $15 Students: $10
MAP MAKING AND TEAM BUILDING
Students made maps of the Sustainability classroom and the playground. We hunted for treasures using our maps!After a day of indoor recess we combined forces and took our classes outside! We gazed at the drops of rain glistening on the street trees and leaves, passed over puddles and sang nature songs in the park playground.
We have been looking for signs of the season changing and for living things in our community. Students are learning to appreciate the beauty and diversity in nature.
All classes are now recycling during lunch time. Students have been inspired to clean up trash in the schoolyard and the neighborhood. We are bringing it to the recycling bins. They are stars of sustainability!
KID QUOTES
“If we don’t eat all our food then we will waste it, all the food will flow over onto the floor and we won’t save the day!”
“I use tape and tape things together. And sometimes I draw and use markers and make people and things out of cardboard. I go out on garbage night and take things out of the garbage.”
“Maybe you can put pictures so we remember. You could put a sign up with more pictures so we know what to do.”
“Recycling is good. Recycling is when you put stuff in the thing so it doesn’t go into the environment. If it gets into the environment... it is bad for the environment!”
“Sometimes it can be good for the community and the earth. It does not waste stuff. You can make it into something new. You can recycle paper, metal, plastic. You can recycle stuff like glass and even wood. You never waste stuff.”
“I don’t like it when things are being thrown out. I make stuff out of garbage.”
“I make it into bats and ghosts."
“There is a garbage truck that comes and takes the recycling somewhere.”
“Recycling is things you can’t throw in the trash. If you throw it in the recycling then more things will be made. If you don’t then something bad will happen to it.”
Teach
Living things can be alive or dead but it had to once be living.
Everything is from nature but some things are living and some are non-living.
We are learning the difference between a living thing and a non-living thing. We explored horseshoe crabs and plants this week.
Go on a living and non-living thing scavenger hunt!
Link to more information on living and non-living:
http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0001.html